IMers Teaching Blog Spam...Wonderful

Or maby someone new think its the way to build backlinks
He just copy/paste the same message over and over again.

Well... that does not explain the different URL.
Guess there is a few sites providing such a service.

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Thanks again from your fellow Warrior,
Insert Name Here

The worst part of it is that it defeats the whole purpose of blogging which is to share ideas. I don't mind it when someone links to their own site from my blog -- unless they're not adding anything to the discussion or they're linking to some scammy/spammy splog.

Actually, if they say something halfway interesting and their blog is related in some way to mine, it's great -- it gets you a relevant outbound link and some UGC.

Blog commenting can be great on other peoples sites but it has to be relevant, I would not even dream of posting a spam comment on a blog just to share my link as it is clearly a waste of my time...it took time to post that, so why not at least make it relevant or ask a question that gets someone to clarify? lol

If I have nothing to share about someones post I will never say "good post", I will always try to ask something further or give another view.

Great post! Are you a journalist? You write so well! I'm going to add you to my RSS reader!

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Seriously though...

It sucks, but it has been going on for quite some time. After all, IMers many years ago were some of the first to jump on the idea of using blog commenting software to write generic posts and get links. They promoted the idea, they promoted the software, and they created their own versions of the original software.

So it was just a matter of time before someone created the commenting templates, too.


Cheers,
Becky

I thought I read a while ago you don't allow comments on your blog? I liked that idea, it cuts down on having to filter through all the junk. Who sees the spam comment you posted on here? Nobody, except you? I don't see what the problem would be unless they found a way to hack into your blog to post the comment so it was viewable by everyone?

yeah blog spam is so friggin lame. I just want to give them a swift kick to the balls when they do it

lots of people doing copy n paste spend a penny make a pound, should not be hard to work it out who's doing that one, nless there are some simese twins out there

Ug. I wish this surprised me, but it doesn't, unfortunately.

Honestly telling you that some individuals have also hired some students who do spam commenting for them and they get paid for this actually when the race of money is introduced in some system than it destroys the main purpose of system because everybody use such system as a money making machine

Thank two pieces of software for this - the latest one is much more affordable than the first and has increased blog spam tenfold.

No. Don't PM me asking for the names of these programs.

What I really love is when you start a new blog and there's only the standard welcome world post then someone leaves a comment along the lines of how insightful I am and that I must be a very talented journalist and writer.

You may be assuming it was 2 different people. Could be one spammer using different ips and addresses to pimp different websites.

Naturally, it would be for that wonderfully, legitimate, Blogging to the Bank.

Oh the wretched blog spammers. I often get these "heart felt" comments to my post that have some crazy url attached to it. If they put their efforts into a good practice, they would have a quality business on their hands.

They evolve quickly though. They must be getting good enough results.

I guess the only thing that surprises me is that you were surprised by this.

It amazes me that those (like you) that are ethical assume others are too. When it is documented the % of sociopaths in English speaking countries has tripled in 50 years and it is well documented that over 80% of people will justify anything if they believe it somehow effects their livelihood or ability to feed their family.

Fact is, in my opinion, most marketers use what capacity for moral aptitude they do have sparingly. And when in this economy you have millions of new people trying to make a living on line that come from a background of neighborhood BBQs and have some strange idea to trust people until they prove they are untrustworthy, that just brings out the sharks and the feeding frenzy begins.

(Pretty negative post I am making, Huh?)

When I 1st got on the internet in an attempt to make money, the things people attempted to sell me and what they did sell me would make a lifer in Sing Sing blush. These are people that are IM household names and that have followers in the millions (or at least 100 thousands) and I have seen 'worshiped' by other IMers. The finance people that conned enough people to put an entire world into a global recession would not do some of the things I have had done to me when I was a newbie and seen done to others.

I am far from naive... I was in the car biz for 27 years and worked with snakes and sharks every day. NONE of them were 10% as bad as half the crap presented to me. Some one is teaching people how to spam blogs for back-links is NOTHING compared to what is going on out there. I am amazed that this is even an issue. This is like an 8 year old lifting a loaf of bread from the Wa-Wa compared to most of the crap that is going on.

You can say, Mark is just bitter. Say it if it makes YOU feel better and helps your denial of reality, but ethical people in the IM niche are the VAST minority. That isn't a 'guess'. That is tested.

Mark

Steven,

This kind of thing has been going on a very long time. That's why all my blog comments are moderated.

I got one on one of my blogs today telling me they thought my blog theme was great - did I design it myself... (it is horrendous...I know because I DID design it myself LOL). Then of course there was the link...

What you saw was most likely in the product owners Affiliate Tools section. Blogging to the Bank - what else would they do but teach you how to use blogs, right

Let's not forget - as long as you or I have been on line and know how bad this is and how ineffective, new people sign up daily and think they've discovered something to make them easy money - because that's what they're told.